Yvonne Bronner, ScD, RD

Education

ScD, Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University, 1983
Licensed Nutritionist (LD), Washington, D.C., 1989
Fellowship, Maternal Nutrition, March of Dimes, University of North Carolina, 1984
Registered Dietician (RD), American Dietetic Association, 1974
MS, Nutrition and Public Health, Case Western Reserve University, 1970
B.A., Food and Nutrition, University of Akron, 1963

Biosketch, Academic, and Research Activities

As a professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Behavioral Health Science department at Morgan State University (MSU), my research has been focused on community health issues surrounding families, mothers, and their children (i.e. nutrition, obesity, breastfeeding, and family health) and the elimination of health disparities that pervade minority families, mothers, and children. In my research on communities using community based participatory research methods, I have affirmed the old adage that effective interventions and solutions are drawn from appropriately collected and analyzed quantitative and qualitative information.

This funding opportunity will be used to evaluate the state of data collection and procedures of the Baltimore Healthy Start Inc. (BHSI), an agency that caters to mothers and their children. Given that infant mortality among African American children in Baltimore is very high, even higher than some developing countries, the quality of data collected by BHSI is pivotal in drafting interventions, solutions, and policies that would address this social injustice. Infusing a community health worker model developed by Harvard and Johns Hopkins University and using tested data collection procedures, the collaboration between MSU and BHSI aims to develop a model data collection tool kit to be used by community health workers of the several Healthy Starts around the US. The data collected using the tool kit are appropriate, complete, consistent, and meaningful - high quality data, an outcome that would provide precise and accurate information from which effective community interventions would arise. The impact of this study will be felt mostly by the communities, families, mothers, and their children. We are doing this to help ensure that families, mothers, and their children are healthy because all these make a healthy community.

Selected Publications

Monographs

Bronner, YL, Eliminating the Gap in Infant Mortality. DHHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, 2007.

Bronner Y, Editor. Ford C, Henderson T, Rowell R, Sydnor K. Initiative Focused on Eliminating Health Disparities in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Through Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Faculty Development. Department of Heath and Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration and Health Resources and Service Administration - Office of Minority Health, 2006.

USDHHS - A Healthier You - Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. USDA and USDHHS . (Yvonne Bronner, ScD - member US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee)

Peer Reviewed Articles

Archibald P, Dobson-Sydnor K, Daniels K, Bronner Y. Explaining African-Americans' Depressive Symptoms: a Stress-Distress and Coping Perspective. J Health Psychol. 2012 Apr 11. [Epub ahead of print].

Peart T, Velasco Mondragon HE, Rohm-Young D, Bronner Y, Hossain MB. Weight status in US youth: the role of activity, diet, and sedentary behaviors. Am J Health Behav. 2011 Nov;35(6):756-64.

Joubert A, Kidd-Taylor A, Christopher G, Nanda J, Warren R, Lindong I, Bronner Y. Complementary and alternative medical practice: self-care preferred vs. practitioner-based care among patients with asthma. J Natl Med Assoc. 2010 Jul;102(7):562-9.

Bronner Y, Auerbach K. Maternal Nutrition During Lactation. In Riordan J, Auerbach K, eds. Breastfeeding and Human Lactation. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2009.

Johnson CE, Oladeinde FO, Kinyua AM, Michelin R, Makinde JM, Jaiyesimi AA, Mbiti WN, Kamau GN, Kofi-Tsekpo WM, Pramanik S, Williams A, Kennedy A, Bronner Y, Clarke K, Fofonoff P, Nemerson D. Comparative Assessment Of Total Phenolic Content In Selected Medicinal Plants. Niger J Nat Prod Med. 2008;12:40-42.

Bronner, Y, Wolfberg, A.J., Michaels, K.B., Shields, W. O'Campo, P., Bienstock, J. "Dads as Breastfeeding Advocates: Results from a randomized controlled trial of and education intervention." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: 191 708-12. (2004)

Bronner Y, Hawkins A, Holt M, Hossain B, Rowel R, Sydnor K, Divers S,. Conceptual Models for Nutrition Education to Increase Consumption of Calcium and Dairy Products among African Americans. Symposium: Calcium-Related Chronic Diseases in Ethnic Minorities: Can Dairy Consumption Reduce Health Disparities? J Nutr. 136:1103-1106, April, 2006.

 

Gross, Susan M, Bronner YL, Welch Claudette, Dewberry-Moore Natalie, Paige David M (2004). Breakfast and Lunch Meal Skipping Patterns among Fourth-Grade Children from Selected Public Schools in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Maryland. Journal of American Dietetic Association.

Bronner Y, Boyington JE. Developing Weight Loss Interventions for African American women: Elements of Successful Models. Journal of National Medical Association. (4): 224-235. 2002

Bronner YL, Barber T, Miele L. Introduction and Design of National WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Survey. Journal of Human Lactation (April, 2001)

 

Bronner YL, Barber T, Vogelhut J, Kovar A. Results of the National WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Survey. Journal of Human Lactation (April, 2001)

Bronner YL, Barber T, Davis S. Policy Implications of the National WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Survey. Journal of Human Lactation (April, 2001)

Bronner YL, Ebede TL, Hossain MB, Nowverl A, Harris E (2001). Historical Assessment of Nutrition Studies Using Only African American Study Subjects: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Geographic Location. Ethnicity & Disease; 11:134-143.

Bronner Y, Boyington JE. Developing Weight Loss Interventions for African American Women: Elements of Successful Models. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2001

Bronner Y, Cross-Cultural Issues during Pregnancy and Lactation: Implications for Assessment and Counseling. In Story M, Stang J, eds. Nutrition and the Pregnant Adolescent: A Practical Reference Guide. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Leadership, Education, and Training in Maternal and Child Nutrition, University of Minnesota, 2000: 173-180

Bronner Y, Harris E (1999). "Food Counts in the African American Community: Chart Book 2001". Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. 5:13-30.

Bronner Y, Harris E (1999). "Diet and Lifestyle Practices of African American Males." Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. 5:13-30.

Bronner Y, Gross S, Caulfield L, Bentley M, et al (1999). "Early Introduction of Solid Foods Among Urban African-American Participants in WIC." Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:457-461.

Bronner Y, Auerbach K (1999). "Maternal Nutrition During Lactation." Breastfeeding and Human Lactation. Riordan J, Auerbach K, eds. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers:515-539.

Bronner Y, Harris E, Hossain B, Yartey J, Nowverl A (1999). Health Policy Implications of Diet and Lifestyle Practices of African American Males. Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy.

Bronner Y Baldwin K (1999). "The Nutritional Status and Needs of Women of Reproductive Age." In Grason, Hutchins J, Silver, G, eds. Charting a Course for the Future of Women's and Perinatal health: Volume II -- Reviews of Key Issues. Baltimore, MD women's and Children's Health Policy Center, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1999:183-207.

Bronner Y, Baldwin K (1999). "Women's Physical Activity in Leisure, Occupational and Daily Living Activities." In Grason, Hutchins J, Silver, G, eds. Charting a Course for the Future of Women's and Perinatal health: Volume II -- Reviews of Key Issues. Baltimore, MD Women's and Children's Health Policy Center, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health,209-223.